How does an actress manage to look luminescent while running for her life through the damp woods? How does she dazzle as she's being tormented by a maniac? Elizabeth Olsen manages to bring the haggard hot and the survivalist chic to her debut film, Martha Marcy May Marlene.

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Called "the new supernova in the Sundance galaxy" by the New York Post and a "whipsmart starlet" by Moviefone after Martha Marcy May Marlene premiered at this year's Sundance, 21-year-old Elizabeth Olsen is poised to grab even more attention away from her famous sisters once MMMM opens tonight.

She's radiant on screen, a perfect antidote to the chilling creepiness of her co-star John Hawkes (you may remember him from Lost, in which he played that John Lennon lookalike temple-dweller in the final season, or in about 100 other films and movies dating back to Fantasy Island), who plays her character's cult leader.